Caprese Dessert
I present a recipe for an incredibly delicious cake. This dish, like the salad of the same name, is an Italian classic. The main highlight of this version is the absence of wheat flour. I recommend purchasing cocoa powder and almond flour at pastry shops.
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 6
- Recipe difficulty
- 3 / 5
Ingredients
for 6 servings
- sugar 150 g
- butter 150 g
- eggs 4
- almond flour 150 g
- cocoa 20 g
- chocolate 150 g
- potato starch 30 g
- vanilla sugar 10 g
- baking powder 5 g
Instructions
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Melt the chocolate in a water bath.
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Mix the almond flour, starch, baking powder and cocoa.
Step 3 of 15
Stir.
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Cream the butter with sugar and vanilla sugar.
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Add the chocolate.
Step 6 of 15
Stir.
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Separate the egg whites and yolks. Add the yolks to the chocolate mixture.
Step 8 of 15
Stir.
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Add the almond flour mixture.
Step 10 of 15
Stir.
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Beat the egg whites.
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Combine the egg whites with the chocolate mixture.
Step 13 of 15
Gently mix.
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Grease a baking pan with butter (I used one with a diameter of 22 cm). Transfer the batter. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 40–45 minutes.
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Optionally decorate the cake with powdered sugar.